Senior PLO official Nabil Shaath said on Sunday that there is full coordination between Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal regarding the negotiations for a ceasefire in Gaza.

Speaking with the Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency, Shaath said that he met with Mashaal and his deputy, Moussa Abu Marzouk, who filled him in on the Egyptian-mediated negotiations taking place between the Gaza-based terror groups and an Israeli envoy in Cairo.

Shaath said that Mashaal told him that while the negotiations had entered a serious stage, he believed that a ceasefire is unlikely in the near future as the terror organizations are refusing to accept Israel’s conditions for a ceasefire.